ABSTRACT
The present article aims to understand how the modernity of the gardens designed by Roberto Burle Marx is created through the use of strategies that could be qualified as conservative or even regressive if they were analyzed from the traditional perspective of the Brazilian modernism history. The analysis of one of his peculiar formal procedures - the use of architectural elements acquired in demolitions in the composition of his gardens - in connection with his practice as a botanical and art collector, should provide new critical apparatus to approach his landscape oeuvre.
KEYWORDS:
Marx; Gardens; Brazilian modernism; Neoclassicism; Ecleticism
